Rogrio Salvador, North Paran State University, looks at the impact of streptococcosis on tilapia in Brazil and efficacy of AquaVac Strep Sa for managing the disease under controlled conditions. Taken from the MSD Animal Health 'Bacterial Disease in Warmwater F…
Tilapia is losing ground in the US market whilst catfish supply is expected to increase during 2012 but with a stronger focus on quality and safety, according to the FAO Global Food Outloook.
This study aims to investigate the impact of commonly used pesticides (deltamethrin) on the blood and tissue oxidative stress level in catfish; in addition to the protective effect of alpha-tocopherol on deltamethrin induced oxidative stress, write Kamal A Ami…
Hybrid catfish offer productionadvantages over channel catfish.Trials have shown the greatersurvival and faster growth of thehybrids allows shorter productioncycles. The hybrids alsohave better feed conversion andfillet yield, writes Nagaraj G. Chatakondi, USD…
Low market prices challenge the Chinese tilapia industry as it seeks to become sustainable, writes Dr Liu Liping and Dr Zhang Zongfen from Shanghai Ocean University, and Dr Francis Murray and Dr David Little from the University of Stirling. Taken from the Glob…
The pangasius industry in Viet Nam faced difficulties of supply, with increased production costs, disease problems and high interest rates for bank loans. However, imports during the first half of 2011 increased to the US market but declined to the EU, writes …
Tilapia breeding is profitable only if it is solely focused on male populations. Hormonal inversion methods currently used to produce these populations have, however, many drawbacks. CIRAD has been investigating a genetic approach for several years and just di…
Fish farming in Nigeria is currently a very lucrative business and it is mainly boosted by the continuous rise in the demand for catfish, reports the Nigerian Tribune.
The Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (MAFES) and Delta Western Research Centre (DWRC) have collaborated on catfish nutrition research for two decades with the primary goal of reducing catfish production cost by developing cost-efficient…
An ambitious project aims to train over 800 smallholders a year in sustainable aquaculture, with the long term aim of reducing poverty in the South Rachounyo District of Homa Bay County of Kenya. Charlotte Johnston, TheFishSite editor reports.
Researchers from the Department of Environmental Management at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Viet Nam, look at methods to improve tilapia cage farming in Tien Giang, Viet Nam.
KENYA - Arror River integrated multi-purpose project, which is earmarked to kick-off in earnest in Elgeyo Marakwet County, is an ambitious project which is geared towards transforming Kerio Valley region to a food basket once it is implemented and completed.
The majority of foodsize-fish operations (81.9 per cent) raised unspecified lines of channel catfish. More than one-fifth of operations (21.2 per cent) raised channel multiplied by blue hybrid catfish.
In May 2011 the Cefas Fish Health Inspectorate(FHI), working in conjunction with colleaguesfrom the Environment Agency (EA),investigated a large scale mortality of commoncarp at Crockwell Farm Fishery, Eydon, Northamptonshire.
A new catfish disease, caused bya previously unseen strain of the Aeromonas hydrophilabacteria, appeared in Alabama in the summer of 2009. Andy Goodwin, Professor/ Associate Director of Fish Health at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, gives an update on t…
High ingredient prices in 2008 led feed mills to begin to manufacture new, less expensive feed formulationsuntested under commercial catfish farming conditions. New feed formulations have been tested at University of Arkansas Pine Bluff for the past three year…
Based at Lake Baringo, Kenya, Omega Farms is in its early days. Charlotte Johnston, TheFishSite Editor speaks to Director Mark Archer, about the Omega Farm project and increasing the supply of tilapia fingerlings in Kenya.
